Email Author Luke Turf

Awards

• 2008 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published June 12, 2007

  "Last Chance High"

• 2008 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published April 19, 2007

  "Faith, Hope... and Charity"

• 2008 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published February 22, 2007

  "The Transformers"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 2, 2005

  "Lost and Found"

More

2005 Stories by Luke Turf

• Looks That Kill

  published April 7, 2005

  FRI, 4/8 Japanese painter Yumiko Kayukawa has earned a global reputation for fusing balance, harmony and...' 80s butt rock.... More >>

• Sis Boom Bah

  published March 17, 2005

  A cheerleader in her black, gray and white uniform was talking with a gangster in blue behind Montbello High School one afternoon last September.... More >>

• Trial by Wire

  published March 3, 2005

  Terry Graham arrived at the immigration-reform forum late, when things were already heating up. She slid into the back row of seats in the North... More >>

• Payday

  published February 24, 2005

  Bosses pick up Juan Lopez Gutierrez for quick jobs. He landscapes or builds houses. He paints walls and lays floors. Different men pick him up in... More >>

• Give our regards to Broadway

  published February 17, 2005

  5:55 a.m.: 7600 Broadway They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway...but right before dawn, on the hillside where Broadway... More >>

• Def Poetry Jam

  published January 20, 2005

  After lighting the fuse for the hip-hop explosion more than two decades ago, Russell Simmons has extended his Defness to the Def Poetry Jam tour,... More >>

• The Ride of Their Lives

  published January 13, 2005

  Death came many times for Christian LaFore in his twin sister's dreams. Over and over, she saw his life end on the ski slopes, even though... More >>